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Najwa Najjar

Palestinian film director and screenwriter

Najwa Najjar (Arabic: نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director. She was born to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Najjar lives in the Palestinian Territories.[1]

works

Her debut feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh won 10 awards,[which?] and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals.[2][3][4] When the film was first screened in Ramallah, there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza[5] over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner."[6] At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award.[7][8]

The 1999 documentary film Naim and Wadee’a was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948. The film won the Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the 2000 Hamptons International Film Festival.[9]

Her film, Eyes of a Thief, was the official Palestinian submission to the 87th Academy Awards.[1][10]

Filmography

The following are some of the films he has made:[11][12]

  • Naim and Wadee’a (1999)
  • Quintessence of Oblivion (2000)
  • A Boy Named Mohamed (2001)
  • Blue Gold (2004)
  • They Came from the East (2004)
  • Yasmine Tughani (2006)
  • Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009)
  • Eyes of a Thief (2014)
  • Between Heaven and Earth (2019)

References

  1. ^ ab"Najwa Najjar". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^"Palestinian drama 'Pomegranates and Myrrh' opens in UAE at Eid". Al Bawaba. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  3. ^Anderson, John (15 July 2009). "Pomegranates and Myrrh". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  4. ^Chaudhary, Suchitra Bajpai (16 September 2011). "My world: Film-maker Najwa Najjar". Gulf News. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^Kuttab, Daoud (4 May 2009). "Palestinians Angry About Portrayal of Prisoners' Wife by Palestinian Filmmaker". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  6. ^Ball, Anna (2012). Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective. New York: Routledge. pp. 70–71, 182–183. ISBN .
  7. ^Ebiri, Bilge (4 November 2009). "6 Best Middle Eastern Films From Doha-Tribeca Fest". Vulture. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  8. ^Jaafar, Ali (4 December 2009). "Rab Pack: the Arab new wave". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  9. ^Farsoun, Samih K. (2004). Culture and Customs of the Palestinians. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 121. ISBN .
  10. ^"Fabbrica dei Progetti La Selezione del 2011"(PDF). Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  11. ^Najjar, Najwa (18 April 2008). "How cinema helped me to survive in Palestine". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  12. ^"Najwa Najjar". Festival Scope. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2022.

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